David Ray

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For the Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient, see David R. Ray

David Ray (born May 20, 1932), is an American poet, particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern.

Ray is the author of sixteen volumes of poetry and is the founding editor of New Letters magazine and New Letters On The Air.

He has taught at a number of colleges in the U.S.A., including Cornell University, Reed College, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, from which he retired.

Among other awards, he is a two-time winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and a five-time winner of the P.E.N. fiction award.